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Open2Study offers a way to learn about a wide variety of subjects from some of
the best institutions. Explore the origins of crime with Griffith University,
learn how to paint and draw from instructors at Abu Dhabi University or
discover the world of music at James Cook University. Whether you love to
travel the world or are the CEO of your own company, Open2Study offers free,
high-quality education. Every course has its own classroom where you can learn
through interactive videos, quizzes and collaboration with fellow classmates.
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Course Description

Gain an introductory understanding of evolution, including how we evolved from
primates and became human.
Impressively, humans are the only creatures produced by evolution that are
capable of understanding evolution. In Becoming Human: Anthropology, you can
explore how evolution works and how variation arises.
Find out why, of all the orders of life, primates produced us. How did apes
start to look like us, walk on two feet and grow big brains that over the past
200,000 years have figured out where we came from? This course will give you
some thought-provoking answers.
#### What will I learn?
* Basic evolutionary concepts
* The traces of human evolution in our bodies
* Darwin’s contributions to evolutionary theory
* The genetic dimensions of human evolution
* The processes of cooperation and symbiosis
* Niche creation, learning, and other types of inheritance
* The differences between men and wom...
Gain an introductory understanding of evolution, including how we evolved from
primates and became human.
Impressively, humans are the only creatures produced by evolution that are
capable of understanding evolution. In Becoming Human: Anthropology, you can
explore how evolution works and how variation arises.
Find out why, of all the orders of life, primates produced us. How did apes
start to look like us, walk on two feet and grow big brains that over the past
200,000 years have figured out where we came from? This course will give you
some thought-provoking answers.
#### What will I learn?
* Basic evolutionary concepts
* The traces of human evolution in our bodies
* Darwin’s contributions to evolutionary theory
* The genetic dimensions of human evolution
* The processes of cooperation and symbiosis
* Niche creation, learning, and other types of inheritance
* The differences between men and women
* Why sex is so important to evolution
* The role of our needy babies
* 'Natural’ human sexuality
* What brains are good for
* The cost of having a big brain
* Tools, technology and new evolutionary tricks
* Whether or not human evolution is over
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The course covers extensive topics offering a succinct overview on all the prominent aspects that shaped the 'Human Body'. It detailed upon natural selection, reproduction and formation of brain leading onto how modern world is on-setting a rapid evolution. This has become a reference for me to begin on topic-specific courses to learn in depth. Thank you, Prof Greg Downey for making the course extensively engaging.

Short introduction to evolution theory and a bit anthropology. I expected
more. The tutor is not an anthropologist, he is ethnologist. But nevertheless
the course is not boring. If you know nothing about Darwin, natural selection,
human brain and so on - this course is for you. Assessments are not short (in
the first one - ten questions), but are rather easy.

Really interesting course and topic. It's light (few assessments and short)
and small - I would have been able to finish it just using my knowledge on the
topic (and I'm not even close to an anthropologist!). I recommend it as an
introduction.